UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

(I tried Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 ; nothing worked)

This is from the third post, his first reply to me.

I think "nothing works" means he cannot boot..... He already mentioned that he could install, but not boot.

I'm not trying to argue with you, so don't think that, but wouldn't each installation (unless some dual-boot config) overwrite the MBR?

There may be a problem with that sector of the disk, but I still don't think it's a (grub|lilo) problem.

Regards

Almost all Linux boot problems are caused by the boot loader. We should not assume anything, we should seek facts.

First of all, we need to determine what bootloader is being used.

Most new Linux users make mistakes when installing the boot image, so before proceeding, it is best to find out what the poster understands about a boot loader, and not assume anything.

The poster is quite clear, and I quote:

So the focus should be on exactly what the poster knows about the bootloader, for example, which one! Lilo? Grub? What is the config? etc.

I guess we wait to hear back from the O.P.

I followed the advise of glen.barber and installed fedora on another disk.
Now everything works fine

I wasn't thinking about the disk, because I already tried another, which was also a bad one

Thanks for the help!